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OrgoneConclusion
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My elderly aunt celebrates a clean bill of health

#16162228 - 04/30/12 07:20 PM (14 years, 4 months ago)

She had breast cancer and was afraid it had spread and has been going through tests for years. This final round found her free of the dreaded disease and she is celebrating.

Sounds like a normal human reaction. Here is the deal: she is devout evangelical Christian who has lived her Biblical three score and ten and was poised to go to paradise for all eternity to be with her beloved Savior.

If someone truly believed that, why celebrate? It seems on some level she does not really believe the myth.

If I was ready to sail to Tahiti to be surrounded by beautiful women in a tropical paradise, I would be pissed if the cruise was cancelled.

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#16162538 - 04/30/12 08:20 PM (14 years, 4 months ago)

gee how interesting, maybe you should rub her face in it. It could give her a fatal heart attach for which she would be eternally grateful.

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" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

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OrgoneConclusion
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Re: My elderly aunt celebrates a clean bill of health

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#16162593 - 04/30/12 08:28 PM (14 years, 4 months ago)

Gee, I never thought of that!

:tard:

:tard:

Actually, I am happy for her as I do not believe in Eternal Reward (unless you have a coupon).

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Re: My elderly aunt celebrates a clean bill of health

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#16162600 - 04/30/12 08:29 PM (14 years, 4 months ago)

OrgoneConclusion said:

She had breast cancer and was afraid it had spread and has been going through tests for years. This final round found her free of the dreaded disease and she is celebrating.

Sounds like a normal human reaction. Here is the deal: she is devout evangelical Christian who has lived her Biblical three score and ten and was poised to go to paradise for all eternity to be with her beloved Savior.

If someone truly believed that, why celebrate? It seems on some level she does not really believe the myth.

If I was ready to sail to Tahiti to be surrouned by beautiful woman in a tropical paradise, I would be pissed if the cruise was cancelled.

Thank Jebus! Would have been such a shame to miss out on those last few mediocre years. :yesnod:

:yesnod:

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#16162612 - 04/30/12 08:31 PM (14 years, 4 months ago)

Maybe she is a masochist?

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#16162624 - 04/30/12 08:33 PM (14 years, 4 months ago)

Actually, I am happy for her

read as, "I'm not in her will" :sad:

:sad:

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#16162638 - 04/30/12 08:34 PM (14 years, 4 months ago)

Mediocre? You sure are an optimist. The Golden Years truly suck!

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#16162655 - 04/30/12 08:37 PM (14 years, 4 months ago)

I didn't want to offend her with my bad vibes. :shrug:

:shrug:

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#16162676 - 04/30/12 08:42 PM (14 years, 4 months ago)

Jwlst said:

Maybe she is a masochist?

Ever notice how people with stigmata get wounds on their hands even though it has been proven that hands could not support a body with just a nail through them? (Unlike this more anatomically correct painting.)

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#16162953 - 04/30/12 09:32 PM (14 years, 4 months ago)

OrgoneConclusion said:

If I was ready to sail to Tahiti to be surrouned by beautiful woman in a tropical paradise, I would be pissed if the cruise was cancelled.

maybe your aint a lesbian

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Re: My elderly aunt celebrates a clean bill of health

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#16162960 - 04/30/12 09:33 PM (14 years, 4 months ago)

OrgoneConclusion said:

If someone truly believed that, why celebrate? It seems on some level she does not really believe the myth.

It seems this problem is inseperable from religious belief.

Almost all of it falls apart on even cursory examination- I suspect many religious folks are essentially living Pascall's wager and continuing for cultural/social reasons. Chuch is a place you can go and have friends who recognize your collective superiority to the godless masses.

Especially amongst old people or those who've spent a lot on their faith- the amount of dissonance caused by even a cursory examination of their beleifs is likely unbearable.

I see the failure of many Christians to know anything about the bible to be a big indicator of these doubts and cynical maneuverings- if you really believed you had a book from god I would dare say you'd be somewhat familiar with it. Hell, its not that long a book, it would be simple to know all of it (especially the gospels) by spending two hours a week reading it- but almost all don't.

So do they really believe, or is it just a cultural artifact that can't be shrugged off without pain?

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Re: My elderly aunt celebrates a clean bill of health

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#16163047 - 04/30/12 09:56 PM (14 years, 4 months ago)

I think Becker and the TMT people can answer that. My dad is a fundy christian and one of the most terrified humans I've ever seen. He's going to heaven and yet I don't ever remember seeing him happy.

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" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC

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#16163200 - 04/30/12 10:30 PM (14 years, 4 months ago)

He is terrifed because you keep pushing his wheelchair into traffic.

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#16163272 - 04/30/12 10:43 PM (14 years, 4 months ago)

If someone needs a wheelchair when they die, do they need one in heaven?

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Re: My elderly aunt celebrates a clean bill of health

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#16163287 - 04/30/12 10:47 PM (14 years, 4 months ago)

Jesus: "This shit is seriously erotic!"

Anyway, the paradise motif in all religions and doctrines is based on the fact that God is Bliss, and You are God. Do a little algebra and you'll see that You are Bliss!!!

!!!

Hoooorrrraaayyyyyy.

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#16163889 - 05/01/12 01:46 AM (14 years, 4 months ago)

I wonder if religious people seriously believe the hocus pocus, or deep down know its all bullshit.

A cognitive dissonance.

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#16163894 - 05/01/12 01:49 AM (14 years, 4 months ago)

That is exactly my point.

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#16163958 - 05/01/12 02:26 AM (14 years, 4 months ago)

Most of the ones I meet are either really dumb or really crazy.

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Re: My elderly aunt celebrates a clean bill of health

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#16164201 - 05/01/12 06:06 AM (14 years, 4 months ago)

circastes said:

Jesus: "This shit is seriously erotic!"

Anyway, the paradise motif in all religions and doctrines is based on the fact that God is Bliss, and You are God. Do a little algebra and you'll see that You are Bliss!!!

!!!

Hoooorrrraaayyyyyy.

If you believe in fairy tale pictures of fairy tale religions that is. :monkeydance:

:monkeydance:

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Re: My elderly aunt celebrates a clean bill of health

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#16164605 - 05/01/12 09:09 AM (14 years, 4 months ago)

OrgoneConclusion said:

She had breast cancer and was afraid it had spread and has been going through tests for years. This final round found her free of the dreaded disease and she is celebrating.

Sounds like a normal human reaction. Here is the deal: she is devout evangelical Christian who has lived her Biblical three score and ten and was poised to go to paradise for all eternity to be with her beloved Savior.

If someone truly believed that, why celebrate? It seems on some level she does not really believe the myth.

If I was ready to sail to Tahiti to be surrounded by beautiful women in a tropical paradise, I would be pissed if the cruise was cancelled.

lol yeah, i saw video the other day by a guru dude who you probly wouldn't like much, but he said if you really believe your going to be in the lap of god why not kill yourself right now because what could be better than that

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